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If you look in\u00a0Nick Kyrgios<\/a>\u2019 player box at tournaments across the world, there are a few constants. One of them is his manager, Daniel Horsfall. \u2018Horse\u2019 is not the typical tennis manager, though. He was Kyrgios\u2019 friend first.<\/p>\n

The pair\u2019s relationship dates back to their junior days in Canberra at Daramalan College, a school for students in Years 7-12. For Kyrgios\u2019 fans, it will be no surprise that they met on the schoolyard basketball court.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t really get along. It was maybe two or three weeks when we were playing basketball every day, going head to head and arguing, just being competitive,\u201d Horsfall told ATPTour.com. \u201cOne day we got put on the same team and it just changed. Since [then] we\u2019ve never looked back and been pretty close, attached at the hip for a few years there. It\u2019s kind of led to where we all are now. He\u2019s definitely like a brother from another mother. I\u2019m very close with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Daniel Horsfall has managed Nick Kyrgios since June 2020. \u00a9 Peter Staples\/ATP Tour<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Horsfall was not a big tennis fan. The only match he recalls from his childhood was when\u00a0Lleyton Hewitt\u00a0played the\u00a0Australian Open\u00a0final. He watched part of the match with his nan and pop.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even remember watching the whole thing. It was pretty late. I went to bed and I was told the result, but it meant nothing to me,\u201d Horsfall said. \u201cObviously being at school in Australia, a lot of people play rugby or soccer or basketball. Tennis is not really an accessible school sport. You don\u2019t really get teams of tennis in Australia. It\u2019s more of a college, U.S. thing I think. I honestly didn\u2019t know much about tennis and\u00a0Nick Kyrgios\u00a0in that sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horsfall knew Kyrgios as a basketball player. Nick signed up for the school team, but was rarely there because of tennis, and his teammates paid it no mind.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until I became closer with him and friends with him. We would go out and eat Chinese food or play Pokemon for like 16 hours without sleep,\u201d Horsfall said. \u201cBut I started to understand who he was and that he played tennis and that he was pretty good, that he had to travel to play sport. That means you\u2019re pretty good. And then we graduated and then all of a sudden obviously I\u2019d followed his career and he was overseas and we were waiting for him to come back all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to Horsfall, they \u201cused to have sleepovers every day\u201d. But he did not fully realise the scope of what Kyrgios was doing until the Australian upset\u00a0Rafael Nadal\u00a0at\u00a0Wimbledon\u00a0in 2014.<\/p>\n

As Kyrgios immediately surged into the spotlight, Horsfall supported from afar and grew a career of his own as a real estate agent. In recent years, he began to travel with Kyrgios for support. But it was not until June 2022 that he shifted from friend to manager.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019d worked for about six years selling houses. That was really good, had a pretty nice career in that. Obviously when Covid hit, by 2020 I was actually travelling with Nick a fair bit, so obviously I was trying to wind down and manage the real estate needs,\u201d Horsfall said. \u201cBut I actually started painting sneakers and I had a couple [of] creations going on and I used to paint sneakers for Nick and people that were playing basketball and stuff. When he came to me after he came home from Indian Wells at the time when Covid had first broke, that\u2019s when we started talking\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a couple months at home and he just kind of opened up and was like, \u2018Mate, I don\u2019t even know if I could play tennis again.\u2019 We sort of just broke it down from the roots. What\u2019s the real problem? How do we fix this? Just getting back to the basic stuff and I hope that if I was in that situation as well that I would have a friend to call on like Nick and he would do the same for me, and I have no doubt that that would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through that process the pair became closer than ever. Horsfall and Kyrgios still disagree on basketball allegiances, though. \u2018Horse\u2019 is a big Miami Heat fan and Kyrgios loves the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rivalry between the Heat and the Celtics and obviously between Nick and I is tough because the Celtics have been winning against us the past couple of years, and trust me when I say I get a phone call or a text the second the game finishes about the result of the game and who\u2019s won,\u201d Horsfall said. \u201cIt could be 4 a.m., the guy is blowing up my phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans will get a behind-the-scenes look at Kyrgios\u2019 life on the ATP Tour in Netflix\u2019s new tennis series Break Point.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see. It\u2019s almost been a whole year, so you remember what\u2019s happened, but you don\u2019t really remember what it felt like in the bits and pieces,\u201d Horsfall said. \u201cI\u2019m sure the cameras saw so much that\u2019s left our minds, so it will be good to see what was going on and just the excitement on all our faces again and the enjoyment of the moment that we were all experiencing. Looking forward to it for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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